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Seoul (AFP) March 10, 2008North Korea must send a "clear signal" to fully declare its nuclear programmes in order to get itself removed from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, the US ambassador here said Monday. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow's demand to South Korea came as the six-party nuclear disarmament talks on North Korea were stuck in a stalemate over Pyongyang's complaint over the list. North Korea ... more Northrop Grumman Mine Detection Systems Earns Go-Ahead 
Melbourne FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2008Northrop Grumman Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) has received approval for low-rate initial production (LRIP) Lot 2 from the U.S. Navy. The company will produce three ALMDS units for approximately $25 million under the contract. It is anticipated that the company will produce 25 units over the next five years when the program enters full rate production in 2010. There is also potent ... more Russia Key To BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2008The Russians are freely sharing with India the full secrets of one of their proudest, most cherished and crucial military technologies with India -- supersonic cruise missiles that fly at Mach 2.8 -- apparently confident it will not leak to the United States. And they have flatly refused to contemplate any similar co-production of these BrahMos series of cruise missiles with China. ... more Tainted water may have sickened soldiers in Iraq: report 
Washington (AFP) March 10, 2008Tainted water from a major US contractor was probably responsible for sickening several dozen US soldiers in Iraq between 2005 and 2006, the Pentagon said in a report obtained Monday. Although a definite link could not be established, the tainted water was supplied by KBR, the global engineering, construction and services company which plays a leading role in providing support to US forces ... more India awards Russia billion dollar MiG-29 upgrade 
New Delhi (AFP) March 10, 2008India has awarded Russia a 965-million-dollar contract to upgrade its multi-role MiG-29 warplanes, officials said on Monday. The two post-Cold War allies Saturday signed the deal to extend the life of India's fleet of 70 MiG-29 jets another 15 years from their current 25 years, an air force official said. "The project entails two to three years and only six of them would be re-fitted in ... more |
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Fort Worth TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2008The Danish defense company Terma has delivered the first of seven Flight Test Instrumentation Pods for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft program to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, Texas. The Flight Test Instrumentation Pods will provide a structurally and environmentally protected housing for the flight test data acquisition system on the mission systems test aircraft during flight ... more British government defends soaring military costs 
London (AFP) March 10, 2008A British minister defended Monday the soaring costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, after figures showed they had almost doubled compared to the previous year. A parliamentary report indicated that spending on the two battlefronts was more than three billion pounds (six billion dollars, 3.95 billion euros), voicing surprise at the increase. Costs for the current financial ... more Analysis: Israel intel warns of new threat 
Washington, March 10, 2008President George W. Bush had promised he would help usher in peace in the Middle East through his efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute -- the core conflict in the Middle East -- before his term as president expires in January 2009. But try as he may, the U.S. president is not getting much help from those he is trying to help. Rather, what the president is getting are ... more Analysis: DHS stages cyberwar exercise 
Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2008Officials from 18 federal agencies, nine states, four foreign governments and more than three dozen private companies will take part in a cyberwar exercise staged by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week. The war game, codenamed Cyber Storm II, will run Monday to Thursday, based at U.S. Secret Service headquarters in Washington. It is the second DHS biannual cyber-exercise ... more Al-Qaeda in Iraq may try for spectacular attacks: general 
Washington (AFP) March 10, 2008Al-Qaeda may be shifting tactics back to the big, headline grabbing attacks in Iraq that helped plunge the country into chaos, a senior US commander said Monday. "We have some indicators that they may be planning on executing kind of a large media type event," said Major General John Kelly, commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force in western Iraq. His comments came amid news of a ... more |
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Ottawa (AFP) March 10, 2008Canada is warning that new US legislation could prohibit its southern neighbor from buying fuel from its oilsands with "unintended consequences for both countries," officials said Monday. "The government of Canada has concerns about how section 526 of the December 2007 US Energy Independence and Security Act could be interpreted to include Canadian oil sands," Eugenie Cormier-Lassonde, a ... more Clean Coal Agreement With China 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 10, 2008In an important step towards a greener global future, Australia and China signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research in Beijing. The agreement, between CSIRO and China's Thermal Power Research Institute, will see TPRI install, commission and operate a post combustion capture pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant as part of CSIRO's research program ... more China's trade surplus drops sharply in February: official data 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008China's trade surplus shrank in February to a third of the level in the same month a year ago, customs authorities said Monday, as analysts said the US economic slowdown was starting to bite. The surplus of 8.56 billion dollars in February compared with a surplus of 23.8 billion dollars a year earlier, according to customs. The lower surplus came amid a 35.1 percent rise in imports, which ... more Urban, rural income disparity keeps growing in China: govt 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008The income gap between urban and rural areas in China kept growing last year and there is a long way to go to narrow it down, a senior agricultural official said Monday. "The income gap between urban and rural areas has indeed kept widening," vice agriculture minister Wei Chao'an told reporters at a briefing on the sidelines of the ongoing national parliamentary session. Per capita net ... more Newly Defined Signaling Pathway Could Mean Better Biofuel Sources 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 10, 2008A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to Purdue University researchers. The pathway moves materials that determine cell shape and size through a system of signaling proteins, said Dan Szymanski, a plant geneticist and cellular ... more
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